Resources
- Ports and Climate Change
- Update Report 2013 - National Climate Change Adaptation Research Plan for Primary Industries
- Analysis of damage to buildings following the 2010-11 Eastern Australia floods
- Planning, building and insuring: Adaptation of built environment to climate change
- Extractive resource development in a changing climate: learning the lessons from extreme weather events in Queensland, Australia
- NCCARF Business Factsheet
- Business and Climate Change Adaptation: Toward Resilient Companies and Communities
- Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP)
- Superannuation Trustees and Climate Change Report
- Stormy Future For U.S. Property/Casualty Insurers: the Growing Costs and risks of extreme Weather events
- Impacts and adaptation responses of infrastructure and communities to heatwaves
- A spatial vulnerability analysis of urban populations during extreme heat events in Australian capital cities
- Assessing Climate Change Risks and opportunities for Investors: Property and Construction Sector
- Climate Change Adaptation and Business Sector Forum
This brief report (30 pages) by Baker and McKenzie explores the 'risks and opportunities posed by climate change, the difficulty of accessing information to quantify climate change risk, the fiduciary obligations of superannuation fund trustees as they relate to climate change and sustainability, and conclusions as to what trustees should be doing in response to climate change. While this analysis is presented in the context of the Australian legal regime, it has far wider implications for international investors, asset owners and fund managers.'
The report themes the risks and opportunities into issues associated with technological impacts (mainly associated with GHG mitigation); physical impacts; and law and policy development. The report uses the extreme events (namely the Queensland Floods) to show that the physical risks from extreme weather can be far reaching (e.g. impact on global coal prices). Baker and McKenzie state that climate change is likely to affect the bottom line and return on investment of many Australia companies and they argue that it is only a matter of time before litigation emerges for failures associated with climate change. For more information click here.